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Obama's Poll Numbers Don't Add Up to Whole Story (WaPo hasn't given up on 0bama)
Washington (Com)Post ^ | 7-31-09 | Dan Balz

Posted on 07/30/2009 10:00:29 PM PDT by AmericanSphinx71

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To: AmericanSphinx71

Whoa... An astounding twelve voters were assembled for this focus group? All in one place?? And one out of every three of them was a McCain voter? This sounds like something you can really hang your hat on. Case closed.


21 posted on 07/30/2009 10:26:08 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: AmericanSphinx71

The country has gone too far down the socialist path for the Washington Post to let it stop now. Democracy? Once the left is in charge and the press is a ward of the state, voters don’t matter anymore.


22 posted on 07/30/2009 10:34:35 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: AmericanSphinx71

What to glean from these Delphi sessions? That Obama’s policies are hated so much IN SPITE of the fact that people WANT to be able to like him. That means that Obama will have the capacity to pull a 1996 Bill Clinton in 2012, but it should also tell the Democratic congressmen that Obama’s policies are much more hated than his 50-50 approval ratings indicate.


23 posted on 07/30/2009 10:47:18 PM PDT by dangus (I am JimThompson)
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To: freespirited

e) play golf permanently


24 posted on 07/30/2009 10:48:41 PM PDT by max americana
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To: Minn

Best WaPo Comment so far...

kurttai wrote:

Gee Dan when WAPO goes bankrupt you have a future as the new Oprah from Capitol Hill!! Does the slobbering never end with you? My god.. get some journalistic backbone and say what you and the sycophants at WAPO said when Bushes’ poll numbers tanked...I guess nobody in MSM dare say “The One” is a fake and a liar..oh yea...nobody cares what the MSM says anymore... Is it hard to write on your knees so much Dan “Lewinsky”?


25 posted on 07/30/2009 11:00:16 PM PDT by Brytani (DC Freeper Convention and National Tea Party - FreepMail Me for rooms and convention info!)
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To: AmericanSphinx71
Obama’s Poll Numbers Don't Add Up to Whole Story “

Yes they do..same as Bill Clinton's poll numbers added up to the Dems losing control of the House for the first time in over 40 years, back in 1994.
Hey, where was this guy with “polls not adding up to the whole story” sob pieces when the WaPo continued to hammer President Bush non-stop for over 6 years on his “bad” poll numbers?

26 posted on 07/30/2009 11:05:42 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: AmericanSphinx71; All

Contrast this to a July, 2001 article about Bush’s higher-than-Obama approvals!!

07/02/2001 - Updated 10:06 PM ET

Bush approval rating down 10 points since April
By Richard Benedetto, USA TODAY

WASHINGTON — A slim majority of Americans believe President Bush is doing a good job in what is the lowest job-approval rating of his presidency, a USA TODAY/CNN/Gallup Poll shows.

Bush registered a 52% job-approval rating, down from 62% in late April at the 100-day mark. In mid-June, he had 55% job-approval.

Enactment of a major tax cut and pending passage of an education-reform bill gave him no measurable boost. Analysts say he was hurt by stands on energy, defense and environmental issues.

The White House prefers to view the glass as half full, not half empty. Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer says that despite a fall from the low 60s after the spy plane incident in China in April, the president’s ratings have been “strong, solid and stable” in the 50%-59% range for two months.

“If he had these kinds of numbers in October of a re-election year he’d be on his way to a smashing victory,” Fleischer says.

However, independent analysts say that unless Bush quickly does something to halt the perception that he is slipping, his ratings could fall lower. “The honeymoon is over and people are looking for results,” says Stephen Wayne, a political scientist at Georgetown University


27 posted on 07/30/2009 11:12:27 PM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: AmericanSphinx71
The most arresting moment came when Hart asked everyone to recall how they felt on election night.

Feelings, nothing more than feelings...
28 posted on 07/30/2009 11:15:03 PM PDT by dr_who
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To: AmericanSphinx71

Oh give me a damn break. They expect us to buy this nonsense? And since when is WAPO supposed to be in the business of using its pages to provide pep talks for Obama?


29 posted on 07/30/2009 11:38:06 PM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: Interesting Times

“Stay strong,” said Raymond Fernandez, a movie theater manager and McCain voter. Why did this person or the other McCain voters bother to vote for Mccain if they were so swept up with the Obamamania?


30 posted on 07/31/2009 12:20:56 AM PDT by bzybee
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To: Interesting Times
The most arresting moment came when Hart asked everyone to recall how they felt on election night.

I myself felt sick to my stomach...

31 posted on 07/31/2009 12:54:41 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: AmericanSphinx71; All
I just love posting this graphic- on the blogs I inhabit, it drives the trolls & disruptors Nancy Pelosi
Pelosi: The meltdown
cuckoo:


32 posted on 07/31/2009 1:05:06 AM PDT by backhoe (All across America, the Lights are going out...)
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To: Interesting Times
I raise that question after spending Wednesday night in Towson observing a focus group conducted by pollster Peter Hart for the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

Hart assembled 12 independent voters -- seven who supported Obama in November, four who backed John McCain and one who voted for Ralph Nader. The two-hour session was eye-opening for Hart and a group of journalists.


No journalistic bias or preconceived outcomes here. /sarcasm
33 posted on 07/31/2009 1:18:28 AM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the occupation media.)
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To: AmericanSphinx71

Reporter Balz is one of thoser chinless David Broder - NPR types that consider everything but reality.


34 posted on 07/31/2009 1:31:42 AM PDT by qwertypie
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To: Interesting Times

(No #1 to reply to, not picking on you)

Spin that thang!


35 posted on 07/31/2009 2:48:58 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (The Democrat Party: a criminal organization masquerading as a political party)
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To: zorro8987
"I bet the disapproval of Obama is even _greater_ than what is indicated by most polls."

Bet on it. People in general do not like admitting they made the wrong vote or their judgement was somehow wrong. Many will continue to stay with this fraud until the bitter end and when he finally crashes and burns, they will put the blame on other people as the cause.

36 posted on 07/31/2009 3:02:22 AM PDT by 101voodoo
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To: hometoroost

There are none so Blind as those who do not see.
Complete and total Morons


37 posted on 07/31/2009 4:07:51 AM PDT by ballplayer
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To: MarkeyD

In that case Hope - it’s what’s for dinner.


38 posted on 07/31/2009 4:55:59 PM PDT by hometoroost (Torture? Would you rather do 5 years at Gitmo or 5 hours with the Muslims?)
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